"and [adult swim] as part of its anthology show, The Popeye Show. ""Spinach Fer Britain"" is available on DVD collection. Spinach Fer Britain Spinach Fer Britain is a 1943, anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon, produced by Famous Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film centers around Popeye the Sailor trying to deliver a shipment of spinach to 10 Downing Street in London, while fighting off Nazi Kriegsmarine soldiers pursuing him in a U-boat. Like its predecessor, ""You're a Sap, Mr. Jap"", ""Spinach Fer Britain"" was kept out of distribution for several decades, due to its propagandistic nature and frequent display of"
"Crystal City, Texas Crystal City is a city in and the county seat of Zavala County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,138 at the 2010 census. It was settled as a farming and ranching community and was a major railroad stop being from San Antonio. Spinach became a major crop and the city has promoted itself as ""Spinach Capital of the World."" During World War II, a large internment camp was located here. The town is also noteworthy in the history of Mexican American political self-determination for the founding of the La Raza Unida Party. Crystal City was originally"
"farming. The community that sprang up was named La Pryor. Developers E. J. Buckingham and Carl Groos purchased all of the Cross S Ranch in 1905, platted the town of Crystal City, and sold the rest as sections divided into farms. Zavala, Dimmitt, Frio and LaSalle counties are considered the Winter Garden Region of Texas. Irrigation and mild winter climate has made the area ideal for year-round vegetable farming. During the winter of 1917–18 spinach was introduced to Zavala. The first annual Spinach Festival was introduced in 1936, halted during World War II, but resumed in 1982. Cartoonist E. C."
"of Popeye's positive effects on the spinach industry. There is another Popeye statue in Segar's hometown, Chester, Illinois, and statues in Springdale and Alma, Arkansas (which claims to be ""The Spinach Capital of the World""), at canning plants of Allen Canning, which markets Popeye-branded canned spinach. In addition to Allen Canning's Popeye spinach, Popeye Fresh Foods markets bagged, fresh spinach with Popeye characters on the package. In 2006, when spinach contaminated with ""E. coli"" was accidentally sold to the public, many editorial cartoonists lampooned the affair by featuring Popeye in their cartoons. A frequently circulated story claims that Fleischer's choice"
"storm along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Crystal City is served by the Crystal City Independent School District. The high school teams are known as the Javelinas. There is also a branch of Southwest Texas Junior College, of which the main campus is to the north in Uvalde. Crystal City, Texas Crystal City is a city in and the county seat of Zavala County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,138 at the 2010 census. It was settled as a farming and ranching community and was a major railroad stop being from San Antonio. Spinach became a major crop and the"
"Prickly City Prickly City is a daily comic strip originally drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the ""Chicago Tribune"", and distributed through United Features Syndicate. The cartoon follows the adventures of Carmen, a young girl of color, and a coyote pup named Winslow. The strip is frequently politically oriented with a conservative point-of-view. It is currently drawn by Eric Allie. Carmen – a 'feisty' conservative and a Republican. For a brief time, she had a crush on Tucker Carlson. Carmen made her first appearance at least 4 months before the strip began, in one of Stantis's editorial cartoons."
"Popeye Picnic is held every year in Chester, Illinois on the weekend after Labor Day. Popeye fans attend from across the globe, including a visit by a film crew from South Korea in 2004. The one-eyed sailor's hometown strives to entertain devotees of all ages. In honor of Popeye’s 75th anniversary, the Empire State Building illuminated its notable tower lights green the weekend of January 16–18, 2004 as a tribute to the icon’s love of spinach. This special lighting marked the only time the Empire State Building ever celebrated the anniversary/birthday of a comic strip character. theatrical cartoons: TV Cartoons:"
"Festival is traditionally held on the second weekend in November, and draws former residents (many of them former migrant farm workers) from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Washington State, and beyond. During World War II, Crystal City was home to the largest of the World War II internment camps, having housed American civilians of German, Japanese, and Italian ancestry. With the stream of refugees fleeing the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and later added to by Mexican migrant workers lured by the local spinach industry, the demographics of the small rural city began to shift over the years since its 1910 incorporation,"
"Internment of Civilians. The camp held 3,374 detainees on December 29, 1944. This was the maximum it ever held. Crystal City, named after the town it neighbors and located south of San Antonio, was one of the largest camps in Texas. Before the war, it had been a migrant labor camp, built by the Farm Security Administration to house an influx of migrant workers who came to farm the area's most profitable crop, spinach. At the start of World War II, thousands of Japanese and German residents of the U.S., including both U.S. citizens and resident aliens, were arrested and"
"Mitch Clem Mitch Andrew Clem (born September 15, 1982) is an American cartoonist best known for his web comics ""Nothing Nice To Say"", ""San Antonio Rock City"", and ""My Stupid Life"". Clem was born in Minneapolis, on September 15, 1982. He moved around through various locations in Minnesota, including Coon Rapids, Brooklyn Park, Andover, Melrose, Duluth, and St. Cloud. He says that this is a result of his ""rampant inability to sit still for more than six months at a time."" Clem became interested in comic strips as a child, reading the newspaper strips. He cites ""Calvin and Hobbes"" and"
"1954. A nearby brickyard produced for a time bricks stamped with the name of Crisp. As with those produced in the nearby towns of Ferris and Palmer, these bricks can still occasionally be found, especially in hands of brick collectors. Crisp, Texas Crisp is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It was the birthplace of country music star Ernest Tubb. It is located east of Waxahachie. It was named for a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Charles F. Crisp. Crisp started to use the name when the post office opened in 1892; inhabitants had started"
"settled by American farmers and ranchers producing cattle and various crops. Crystal City was a major stop along with San Antonio, Uvalde, Carrizo Springs, and Corpus Christi on the defunct San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, which operated from 1909 until it was merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1956. From 1909 to 1912, the SAU&G was known as the Crystal City and Uvalde Railroad. There was also an eastern link to Fowlerton near Cotulla in La Salle County. The remaining San Antonio-to-Corpus Christi route is now under the Union Pacific system. The successful production of spinach evolved into"
"Thatch in Disney's animated film """". ""Spin City"" ran from 1996 to 2002 on American television network ABC. The show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, originally starring Fox as Mike Flaherty, a Fordham Law School graduate serving as the Deputy Mayor of New York. Fox won an Emmy award for ""Spin City"" in 2000, three Golden Globe Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1999 and 2000. During the third season of ""Spin City"", Fox made the announcement to the cast and crew of the show that he"
"game. Although a lifelong Yankee fan, he is a part-owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, even earning a World Series ring in 2001 when the Diamondbacks beat his beloved Yankees. In ""City Slickers"", Crystal wears a New York Mets baseball cap. In the 1986 film ""Running Scared"", his character is an avid Chicago Cubs fan, wearing a Cubs' jersey in several scenes. In the 2012 film ""Parental Guidance"", his character is the announcer for the Fresno Grizzlies, a Minor League Baseball team, and aspires to announce for their Major League affiliate, the San Francisco Giants. Crystal appeared in Ken Burns's 1994"
"by Illumination Entertainment, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character. The Grinch has since become an icon of Christmas and the winter holidays, despite the character's hatred of the season. Over the years he has appeared on various forms of memorabilia such as Christmas ornaments, plush dolls, and various clothing items. The grumpy, anti-holiday spirit of the character has led to the term ""Grinch"" coming to refer to a person opposed to Christmas time celebrations or to someone with a coarse, greedy attitude. In 2002, ""TV Guide"" ranked The Grinch number 5 on its ""50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All"
"immediately, switch to a strictly online format (which was the only portion of the business generating a profit), and move the company from Dallas to Seattle. This reflects Scott Kurtz's real-life move of a year earlier in 2010. Skull's cat. Francis attempted to give it to Brent to make the latter feel some Christmas spirit, but the ploy failed and Skull decided to take the cat in. Skull accidentally zapped him with his ""genius machine"", granting him superhuman intelligence. Scratch is bent on global domination, but his evil plans for attaining it have so far been foiled by his feline"
"Ross County, Ohio. In 1983, Sickles was posthumously inducted into the Society of Illustrators hall of fame. Noel Sickles Noel Douglas Sickles (January 24, 1910 – October 3, 1982) was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip ""Scorchy Smith"". Sickles was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Largely self-taught, his career began as a political cartoonist for the ""Ohio State Journal"" in the late 1920s. At that time he met and shared a studio with cartoonist Milton Caniff, then working for the ""Columbus Dispatch"". Sickles followed Caniff, creator of the ""Terry and the Pirates"" comic strip, to"
"a store inside Winstar World Casino. El Fenix (restaurant) El Fenix is a popular chain of Mexican restaurants in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, (Texas) and the oldest chain of Mexican restaurants in the U.S. The name is Spanish for ""the phoenix"", the legendary bird which, according to mythology, arose from its own ashes. The chain has its headquarters in Dallas. It was founded in 1918 by Miguel (Mike) Martinez, and then sold on May 30, 2008 to an investment company. Often, at its main location in downtown Dallas, the lunchtime line of patrons spills out the front door and down"
"'oogl' to cause the spinach to fly at him through the air. E. C. Segar Elzie Crisler Segar (December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip ""Thimble Theatre"". Segar was born on December 8, 1894, and raised in Chester, Illinois, a small town near the Mississippi River. Segar was Jewish. The son of a handyman, his earliest work experiences included assisting his father in house painting and paper hanging. Skilled at playing drums, he also provided musical"
"Stan Cross Stanley George Cross (3 December 1888 – 16 June 1977) was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for ""Smith's Weekly"" and ""The Herald and Weekly Times"". Cross is famous for his iconic 1933 """"For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!”"" cartoon as well as the ""Wally and the Major"" and ""The Potts"" cartoon strips. Cross was the third son born to English-born parents, Theophilus Edwin Cross, builder and architect, and his wife Florence, née Stanbrough, who met in Brisbane, married in Sydney then sought their fortune in"
"taken from his coat of arms. The fleur-de-lis is repeated three times to represent the Holy Trinity. The solitary star represents Dallas and also pays tribute to Texas' nickname, ""The Lone Star State"". The two swords honor St. Paul, who is the patron saint of the first Catholic settlement in Northeast Texas. The formal heraldic blazon for the coat of arms is: ""Gules, on a fess per bend wavy argent three fleurs-de-lis azure; in the sinister chief two crossed swords argent, in the dexter base a molet argent."" Bishop Dunne, Bishop Lynch, and John Paul II are operated by the"
"around America's heartland, such as the Twine Ball of Cawker City, Kansas, and some strange signs posted around Amarillo, Texas. Reprographics has refrained from making political statements with only two notable exceptions. The first was when Chris read about some teenaged girls being threatened with legal action in Ravenna, Ohio. The teens had hung large boxes around Ravenna's city center that were decorated to resemble the question-mark power-up blocks from the popular Super Mario Brothers video games. City authorities viewed this as a potential threat, fearing that the boxes might contain bombs, and the teenagers received national news attention while"
"in the Rio Grande Valley in the city of Harlingen, Texas on October 15, 1972. His interest in comics stems from a day in his early youth when, as a six-year-old child, his mother bought him his first comic, an issue of ""The Flash"". In second grade he sold homemade comics with a cast characters that included the likes of ""Glue Man"" to his classmates for a quarter or their lunch ticket. As a child he typically read superhero comics, but what really caught his attention was the humor comic ""Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!"". He also read"
"of Swanwick and W. Holmes Streets, in front of Buena Vista Bank. The 2009 statue of Castor Oyl and Bernice the Whiffle Hen stands in front of Chester Memorial Hospital. One additional statue has been unveiled each year. A few businesses in Chester are named after Popeye characters: Spinach Can Collectibles/Popeye Museum (Opera House) and Rough-House Pizza On December 8, 2009, Google celebrated Segar's 115th birthday with a Google Doodle of Popeye. The doodle used Popeye's body as the 'g', had 'oogl', drawn to resemble Segar's drawing style, and a spinach can as the 'e', and featured Popeye punching the"
"called ""The Monkey Song"" (an objection to evolution), on ""Feudin' Fussin' and Frettin""' recorded when Crystal was 8 years old, a recording of a 1972 Thomas Road Baptist Church service led by Jerry Falwell. She has two younger sisters, Scarlett and Angelique Bernard. Bernard studied acting at Alley Theatre while growing up in Houston, Texas. She attended Spring High School and continued her education at Baylor University, and where she studied acting and international relations. Bernard got her start in primetime television on the sitcom ""Happy Days"", playing K.C. Cunningham during season 10 (1982–83). Then, after various guest appearances on"
"Crisp, Texas Crisp is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It was the birthplace of country music star Ernest Tubb. It is located east of Waxahachie. It was named for a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Charles F. Crisp. Crisp started to use the name when the post office opened in 1892; inhabitants had started living there a few years prior to that. The town reached its peak in population in the 1920s. It stayed that way until the 1960s, and then, the population plummeted to just under 100. The post office was discontinued in"
"San Antonio Texas, Steve Kafka in Arizona, Alton Gillespie in Fort Worth, Texas, Victor in Nebraska,Alan Johnson Blairstown, New Jersey, Cliff Anderson Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gator in Tennessee, One Arm Bandit in New England, Anthony White in Florida, SCORCH Pinstriping(Daniel Lee) in Bakersfield California (Kustom Drink Paint), Don Q Studios in Orange County California, MWM from Hot Rod Surf in San Diego, Brando in Chicago, Tommy ""Itchy"" Otis in Los Angeles, California, Don ""Spiderman"" Fite of Portland, Oregon and Herb Martinez to name a few of the US stripers. Tramp Warner in Canada...Nefarious, Neil Melliard and Tootall Paul in the UK,"
"from the ones in Massachusetts. The first international locations opened in Bangkok, Thailand in 2014 and in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A shop in Xian, China and one in Hong Kong opened in 2015. By 2017 there were shops in 6 different Asian countries. The mascot is now a red-eyed moose whose name is Stoney. The store was named after two homeless men for whom Robert Rook did pro bono work, who asked that the ice cream shop be named after them. Emack and Bolio were mascots of a sort for the first store. The Bolios were a non-fraternal group of"
"Grinch The Grinch is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss. He is best known as the main character of the children's book ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (1957). He has been played by many different actors, including: Boris Karloff, Hans Conried, Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch. The Grinch is depicted as a hairy, pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality. In full-color adaptations, he is typically colored avocado green. He has spent the past 53 years living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the town of Whoville. In contrast to the cheerful Whos, the Grinch"
"him. Milton Caniff Milton Arthur Paul ""Milt"" Caniff (; February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the ""Terry and the Pirates"" and ""Steve Canyon"" comic strips. Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Caniff did cartoons for local newspapers while studying at Stivers High School (now Stivers School for the Arts) in Dayton Ohio. At Ohio State University, Caniff joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity and later illustrated for ""The Magazine of Sigma Chi"" and ""The"
"was nicknamed ""Hollywood East"". The main characters are said to live in the heart of Rancho Cucamonga. Rancho Cucamonga, California Rancho Cucamonga is a city situated at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. It is located east of Downtown Los Angeles. The city's seal, which centers on a cluster of grapes, alludes to the city's agricultural history including wine-making. The city's proximity to major transportation hubs, airports, and highways has attracted the business of several large corporations, including Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, Big Lots, Mercury Insurance Group, Southern California Edison, and Amphastar Pharmaceuticals. The city had"
"Joker Brand Clothing. He is affiliated with Soul Assassins. Machado has also appeared in the music videos for ""Criminal Set"" by Xzibit and ""Star Power"" by Adil Omar, ""Up's and Down's"" by Snoop Dogg and ""Stan"" by Eminem Mister Cartoon Mark Machado, better known as Mr. Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon, is a Mexican American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. Since the age of eight, Mr. Cartoon realized he was an artist and went on his first paying art job at the age of twelve. Having grown up in the Harbor area of Los"
"with San Jose, California (the San Jose Giants/Bees); Modesto, California (the Modesto Nuts/A's) and the previous past in Lodi, California north of Stockton which goes back 70 years to 1941. The Visalia Rawhide mascot is a Holstein Bull named Tipper. Tipper was introduced on October 15, 2008. Tipper represents the tens of thousands of Holsteins in Tulare County, the top dairy-producing area in the country. Tipper's home is a ballpark barn - a 40' x 20' red barn which is part of the outfield fence - doubles carom off the side of the barn, and home runs land on the"